Safety-pin.



P. v. GAGE as; H. TQ HAZAB- y SAFETY HN.

APPLICATION I-LBD AUG. 15, 1964.

Pane-uned sepa 22, '1908;

\i e A rJYHazard BY @M INVNTOKS 7L-'Yann .e V. @ag Han i l l Lhe ' FANNiEv. GAGE, OF NEA-R DowNiiY, AND Hm serie:'primingy .State of California, and HENRY T. ,IIAZARD a citizen of the United States, residing at- Los Angeles, iii the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have. invented new and useful Improvements iii Safety-Pins, of

which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists in piovidiiig a safety-pin in which the cloth penetrating member is provided 'with an inwardly bent off-set, the olf-set portion forming outwardly inclined bearing surfaces.

The object of our invention is to provide a safety-pin which will when pinned into the supporting cloth or other textile fabric be d in the posit-ion in which it is pinned and will not caiitto oneside when strain is placed thereon, throwing tlie'pin into an angular position and the cloth or fabric into which it is pinned to one side of the pin causing that end of the in to bear the entire strain thereon causing the fabric to tear at that point and prevent the pin from lying flat and even against the cloth on which it is pinned.

le accomplish these objects by means of the device described h'ereiii and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:-

Figure 1 is a view of a safety-pin embodying our invention in- )lace in the sup ort-ing cloth, a connecting we being secured t iereto. Fig. 2 is a safety- )in embodying our invention the pin mem erhaving two of our inwardly curved of-sets, the pin being in place in the supporting fabric and in place in the fabric supported. Fig. 3 is a plan of our iniproved safety-pin having two inwardly bent olf-sets removed from the cloth.

In the drawings A represents the. supporting fabric or cloth into which our safetypin B is securely pinned.

In Fig. 1 we have shown a safety- )in having an outwardly bent off-set B' to which the web C is secured. In the upper portion of the cloth penetrating member is a downwardly or inwardly turned off-set B. This off-set has two bearing shoulders 1 and 2.. These shouldeis have an inclination from the specification of Lettersretent. i Application filed August 15,

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' 'fix HAZARD, or Los ANGELES, CNLIFORNI Patente-d sept. 22, 190s.

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center upwardly and outwardly, the. purpose i of which is to cause the engagingfabric ati,- the point A where itl engages the pin member 'v to move outwardly toward the` respective ends of the -*pin and to keep these bearing pointsof the cloth separated one from the other as far as possible thereby holding the pin in al horizontal position. The greater the strain iiponfthe pin the greater will be the tendency of these bearing points in the G0 cloth to siread apart and beheld apart, thereby holding the` pin in proper horizontal position, or in iosition at right angles to them strain placed t iereon' by the. supported wel or fabric. m65 In Fig. 2 we have shown the'form of the-- pin adapted for use in pinningtwo cloths -M getl'ter, the inwardly bentl olf-set being ilacec 1 on the up )er and the lower part' of the pin A member, tihereby holding both the support- 7.0 ing cloth and the supported cloth in proper .iosition one with the other and causing the caring points in the respective cloths to be spread apart. This forni of pin is also shown det-ache( in Fig. 3. A safety-pin having the'75 inwardly turned off-set providing the inclined outwardly bearing surfaceswill automatically cause the supporting cloth to spread apartand the cont act-ing parts through which the needle passes to spread apart and to remain in that position.

Having described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:-

- As an article of manufacture, a safety pin comprising two members, the penetrating member having a straightl central portion otf-set from' tne ends of said penetrating member, and the main portion of the other member parallel therewith whereby bearing shoulders are formed between the central portion and the ends of the )enetrating pin.

In witness that we claim t ie foregoing we' have hereunto-siibscribed our naines this 11th day of July, 1904.

- FANNIE V. GAGE.

HENRY T. HAZARD. llitnesses:

G. E. HARPHAM, MARGARi-:TE C. NiCKEi.i:soN.y 

